Diane Powell

by Diane Powell, Assistant Director and Primary Grades TrainerI’m going to share some thinking from the questions that were posed by teachers on previous Center for Reading Recovery and Literacy Collaborative Twitter chats and could be a help to educators everywhere. I’ll be using Marie Clay’s text An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement and Fountas & Pinnell’s The Continuum of Literacy Learning, PreK–8 as resources so you’ll know of appropriate resources to use in your continuing search for guidance around the use of Running Records. 1. Can you share strategies for helping teachers see value of Running Records as formative assessment rather than an event at the end of the term?Teachers are very busy these days and unless they understand the power of Running Records and the ra...